HEALTH PACKED INTO A GRAIN OF SPELT AND BARLEY IS EXTRA STRENGTH FROM NATURE – Blic interview - Healthy Life

Green grain juice preserves and strengthens immunity

B. Vučković

One hundred percent natural green juices, pressed from grains of barley or spelt, experts confirm, can significantly strengthen immunity, and thereby be good allies in the fight against certain diseases, an extra strength from nature that improves the blood picture

It is precisely for this reason that, some 14 years ago, the Nemet family from Palić started producing green spelt juice and green barley juice, from young grain grasses that are ground and are an absolute hit for modern people who need more energy and good immunity.

Klementina Kovač Nemet, her husband Arpad, her parents, the whole family is involved in and dedicated to the production, from the plots where they grow the grains to the distribution of the frozen juice pellets.

– My parents founded the company. My mother is a very important person in the company's history, because with her strength and patience she brought us to achieving the best possible quality. To this day she is part of our team, in which everyone has their own task. Mum runs and controls the production, my husband is in charge of technical matters and maintenance, while I am dedicated to clients, tests, standards and the laboratory. But when it comes to production, we all work equally, says Klementina Kovač Nemet.

A decade ago, on the Serbian market there was more astonishment than acceptance of these juices; however, the situation has changed and the beneficial products have become sought after on both the domestic and foreign markets.

– Spelt juice and barley juice are completely different products; they have different properties and effects. But if we want to single one out by its “power”, then it is spelt, because it contains vitamins, enzymes, amino acids and minerals in a very good ratio, and the human body absorbs it very well. It has been established that the body absorbs natural ingredients far better and that large quantities are not needed. What spelt contains was not as much of a help around 30 to 40 years ago as it is now, because the diet was better and contained fewer pesticides. Today we take in fewer nutrients and a lot of harmful substances. In addition, we do not drink enough fluids, the body does not cleanse itself and fatty deposits build up, explains Klementina, adding that spelt juice also contains chlorophyll, which is not as well known as, say, vitamins, but has an exceptional property for the body, because it is liquid oxygen in whose presence a good pH environment is created in which diseases do not survive.

A large amount of enzymes is found in spelt, and Klementina Kovač Nemet says that, according to the official data of the “Hippocrates” Institute in America, founded by Dr Ann Wigmore, the discoverer of this juice, it contains around 400 enzymes.

Barley juice was discovered by Dr Yoshihide Hagiwara, who carried out research together with Dr Wigmore and found that it has very important ingredients, but that it is not, like spelt, in balance with the body.

– If we drink barley for longer, say a year, we can feel hyperactive. It gives strength quickly, as early as the second day, she says, sharing her own experience and that of family members and customers; how long someone will drink this juice everyone should judge for themselves, while the producers say that with one pellet a day it can be taken for up to a year, after which a break should be made.

Spelt can be drunk from one to six pellets a day; for prevention, one to two is enough.

– We have a plot with spelt and barley. The seed is placed in a drying room, from where it is planted into trays. When it grows to 15 centimetres, we trim it and do cold pressing. In that process, the pressure separates the cellulose fibre while the cold-pressed juice flows out. The juice in the moulds goes for quick freezing and storage in freezers, she says.

The taste of both juices is reminiscent of young peas or sweetcorn, and as registered products they have original packaging with a declaration and data confirming their quality.

Nothing is added to the pressed content of these grains, and it is best to drink them on an empty stomach, in the morning before coffee or tea.

– The juice has no side effects and can be used by children and adults, the sick and the healthy alike. Green spelt juice does not contain gluten and can be used even by people who suffer from coeliac disease, while green barley juice contains a little gluten and is not recommended for people who are sensitive to gluten. Green grain brings great effects for athletes because of the chlorophyll and the increased oxygen in the blood. After 14 days of use, athletes feel drastic changes in strength and endurance, she concludes.

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